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Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the slap-and-tickle dept.

dkf writes "Tcl/Tk 8.5 has been released for all major platforms after 5 years of development. There are many new goodies in it, including significant speedups through an advanced bytecode engine, stronger localization of applications, integrated arbitrary-precision arithmetic, a whole bunch of brand new skinnable widgets, anti-aliased text support on all platforms, and a new code-module management system to make maintenance of installations a snap. More in-depth information about the features of both this release and Tcl/Tk in general is available at the official Tcl/Tk website. Mark Roseman's blog has a first-look review."

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  1. Re:Great news by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but coders who prefer other languages might be tk'ed off.

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  2. Tcl language vs. Tcl environment-Bling. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Really? For what purpose?"

    Bragging.

  3. It's Pronounced Tickle by dabbaking · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently Tcl is pronounced 'Tickle'. I learned the hard way after someone had pointed out that I named a file test.tcl.